What's New in Pythonect 0.4.2

What's New In Pythonect 0.4.2?

Release date: 16-Feb-2013

Core and builtins

• Feature #61: Interpreter supports command line '-c', '-i' and '-m'

    $ /usr/local/bin/pythonect -c "'Hello, world' -> print"
    <MainProcess:Thread-1> : Hello, world

• Enhancement #68: Improved Interpreter Banner

    Python 2.7.3 (default, Aug  1 2012, 05:14:39) 
    [Pythonect 0.4.2] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> 

• Enhancement #67: args globals_ and locals_ of eval() are now optional

    >>> import pythonect
    >>> pythonect.eval("'Hello, world' -> print")
    <MainProcess:Thread-1> : Hello, world
    'Hello, world'

• Feature #66: Within Pythonect Program: eval() now takes Pythonect code and __eval__() takes Python

    >>> "'Hello, world' -> print" -> eval
    <MainProcess:Thread-2> : Hello, world
    'Hello, world'

• Refactor __run() [Guy Adini]

• Feature #65: Pythonect now supports PyPy

• Feature #55: Pythonect now supports Python 2.6

• Issue #48: 'print "B" in "ABC"' and 'print 2 is 2' throws Exception

• Issue #60: "copyright", "license", and "credits" are not of Pythonect

• Issue #62: Parameterless functions are now handled properly

    >>> [ def foo(): return 1 ] -> 2 -> foo
    1

• Issue #63: "quit" and "exit" raises ValueError: I/O operation on closed file

• Issue #64: Interpreter command line option '--version'/'-V' output wrong banner

• Issue #69: print/print_ can not be overridden by locals or globals value

    >>> pythonect.eval("'Hello, world' -> print", {'print_': lambda x: "Moo"}, {})
    'Moo'

Build

• Switched to nosetests (+ coverage)

    python setup.py nosetests
    ...
    ...

• Issue #49: zip_safe is not False by default